Composite welding rod for hard facing



Dec. 17, 1935. w. A. WISSLER El AL 2,024,992

COMPOSITE WELDING ROD FOR HARD FACING Filed May 29, 1935 COATNG'CONTAINING ALLOYS, FLUX,AND BINDER CORE OF FERQOUS MATERIAL 7 lg I'NVENTORS 2 WILLIAM A.WISSL EQ WILBER B.MIL LER ATTORNEY atented Dec. 17, 1935 4 Units?!) STATES PATENT orrlcn COMPOSITE WELDING ROD FOR HARD FACING 4 William A. Wissler and Wilbcr B. Miller, Niagara Falls, N. Y., assignors to Haynes Stellitc Company, a corporation of Indiana Application May 29, 1935, Serial No. 24,004 '1 Claims. (Cl. 219-8) This invention relates to welding rods or eleccommercial rolling or drawing 01 the metal core trodes and especially to welding rods which are rod. The coating contains the remainder of the used in forming hard iacings on metallic articles. needed elements together with flux an ndi The desired facing in general would contain i red ents. For fluxin con t ents s p lay.

5 chromium from 3% to 40%, manganese from calcium carbonate, rutile and manganese ores in 6 1% to 8%, carbon 0.5% to 3% and silicon from various proportions are useful. Such a rod is t0 the balance being principally iron, shown in the drawing in which a central core R but may include tungsten, molybdenum, nickel, s P d o w c is app a coating C Which cobalt, vanadium, and the like. The welding rods will be described more in detail hereafter. The

to are especially adapted for use in connection with coating C tains a su ta b ndin a t su h 10 arc welding but are also of value in oxy-acetylene a um Silicate; the coating m y be ppl y welding. I dipping or extrusion.

An object of our invention is to produce weld- Various mixtures of alloying and fl X nS mulng rods which will give a desired deposit oi hard terials may be emp ed in the coat n n t e material and which may contain greater am t following table we set forth three suitable mix- 15 of alloys than would be possible or economical t h p op o s be v n n par s by were it attempted to use 9. rolled rod. containing Weight.

all of the alloy constituent in the core. Another object of our invention is to produce a rod which A B O will give the desired deposit and which will. be

inexpensive and simple to manufacture. Calcium carbonate" i M Other objects of our invention will in part be fi m slip clay evident and will in part appear in the following Manganese e 1.5 specification having reference to the accompanygi gm: gg gg f g 5-5- lng drawing in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view ui manganese I 'I 'iiIBi 919 2 25 of a welding rod illustrating one embodiment of g cglfbolllfemmangameum Z 22 our invention, a part of the coating being broken m 5 away; and Fig. 2 is a, cross section of a welding r d taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. It will be seen that the constituents of the alloy De sits of weld metal containin from 3 to additions contamp' mangangse' silicon and 3e 40%I31mmium, 1% to 8% to chromium in the following approximate percent- 3% carbon, 0% to 3% silicon, and the balance ages by welght' principally iron, have very desirable wear-resisting properties. However, it is impossible, or at 35 least commercially impracticable, to roll rods containing the higher proportion of alloy constituents. For example, the welding rods at present available contain carbon 0.9% to 1.1%, manga- 0hromiu V nese 3.75% to 4.50%, silicon 0.5% to 0.7% and I r i to 13%. Any pt to include The above compositions are mixed with 'sodiuni appr c b y larger amounts of car o chromium silicate solutions to a plastic consistency suitable and manganese would necessitate the use of cast for coating by extrusion or t consistency s t." or sintered rods and even this procedure would able f coating by dipping be very dlmcult and BXPenSWe' While the above specific flux compositions are 45 T In order to pmduce welding rods or electrodes mentioned there are numerous other flux-compoof compositions that would not otherwise be pracns that could be used with the alloys to ticable on account of manufacturing limitations 51 1 we have produced a composite electrode com produce satisfactory results. Other highly volatile coals could be substituted for cannel coal to sisting of two parts, a central metal rod or core produce a gaseous protecting envelope around 50 o tainin the n cessa allo s toand coatmg c n g e ry y the are, as set forth in'the copending applicagether with are stabilizing material. The core may be of either iron or plain carbon teel or it tlon of Mlller. Serial fi ed Demay contain part of the elements desired in the cembe 1933- finished weld deposit, but would not contain sufii- Ot metals ay be ded to the oat Suc clent quantities of such elements to prevent the as tungsten, n a v n n the 55 like. Such additions will replace an equal amolmt of iron and will be in addition to the chromiummanganese and carbon as set forth above. These additions are employed when it is desired to make the rods suitable for various special purposes.

Welding rods were prepared having coatings of a composition in accordance with the above tables. The rods were of low carbon steel and the cores were inch in diam ter but the coatings varied in thickness from .04 to 0.179 inch in thickness. The rods were (:i'ated by the extrusion method and deposits were made by the metallic arc welding method. The following results were obtained:

Composition ofooating A B B o o o Thichiea of coating in inch The rods with coating B, especially when the core contained from 0.9% to 1.1% carbon, worked satisfactorily in oxy-acetylene welding. The rods with high carbon steel cores and coated as described are also satisfactory for 'use as electrodes in arc welding.

While it is possible to add a part of the alloy.- ing elements in the form of oxides, carbides or other compounds of such a nature that they will be reduced or converted to their elemental form during the welding operation, it is preferred to add them as metallic elements or alloys. Other metals may be added to the coating when it is when used for welding it will produce a deposit containing chromium 3% to 40%, .manganese 1% to 10%, carbon 0.5% to 3% and a substantial amount of silicon not in excess of 3%, said coating containing at least a part of the' alloying 5 elements.

2. A welding rod comprising a ferrous core and a coating thereon,'said coating comprising flux material, binder, metallic compounds and alloys, the metallic elements being present in 10 such an amount as to give a deposit consisting of chromium 3% to 40%, manganese 1% to 10%, carbon 0.5% to 3% and silicon in a substantial amount not in excess of 3%. I

3. A welding rod comprising a ferrous core with 15 a coating containing flux material, metallic compounds, carbonaceous material and -metallic a1- loys, the metallic alloys having a composition consisting of carbon 3% to 5%, manganese 10% to 25%, silicon .1% to 3%, chromium-30% to 2 45% with the balance principally iron.

4. A welding rod comprising a ferrous core and a coating thereon, said coating comprising flux material, metallic oxides, high volatile coal and alloy material, said alloy material consisting of 25 carbon in appreciable amounts, manganese 10% to 25%, silicon 1% to 3%, chromium 30% to 45%, a minor but substantial amount of a metal from the group consisting of tungsten, molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, vanadium and mixtures 30 thereof, with the balance substantially iron.

5. A welding rod as claimed in claim 3 .in which the metallic alloys comprise from about to about of the coating.

6. A welding rod as claimed in claim 3 in which as the carbonaceous material is'cannel coal.

'7. A composite welding electrode comprising a ferrous core having a coating thereon, said coating comprising a binder, flux material about 15% to 30%, carbonaceous material about 5%, with the 4!) balance alloys of iron, chromium, manganese, silicon and carbon.

WILLIAM A. wrssmsza. WILBER B. MILLER. us 

